Ms. Fedorova is completing a dissertation on American food aid and agricultural development in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s. This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power and Policy across National Borders" series.
Classes end on Friday, December 4, 2015; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. hm 7/19/15
Ken Lipartito is the co-author of Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience (2012) and of Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston (2011 paperback). This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power and Policy across National Borders" series.
In the early years of this century, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the idea that humans had entered a new geological age, the "Anthropocene." This concept, he argued, captured the fact that over the past 250 years humans and their technologies had reshaped the planet, permanently transforming its complex biophysical systems. His […]
Monday, January 4: Classes begin Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 15: Presidents’ Day holiday.
Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting its annual "Welcome Back!" meeting and providing an overview of its goals and events for the Winter 2016 quarter. This meeting is very important, so please consider attending! A quick peek into what PAT is doing this quarter includes a research workshop, a club trip to the Huntington Library, and a talk by UCSB History […]
The Graduate Finance Committee will hold a workshop to help graduate students familiarize themselves with the process of applying for funding within and outside UCSB. Students should bring drafts of grant proposals for discussion, if possible. The workshop will begin with a discussion of applying for central funding and move on to outside applications. This workshop […]
About the Talk Early in the sixth century BC, a group from the Greek city-state of Phokaia established a trading post on the Catalan coast not far from present-day Barcelona. It eventually became a major military base and trading center for the expansion of the Roman empire. Using the work of archaeologists supplemented by his own […]
Last day to declare candidacy for the Winter 2016 undergraduate degree using GOLD. https://registrar.sa.ucsb.edu/w.aspx
This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings in 2011 that toppled Egypt's long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak. These uprisings in Egypt accelerated waves of anti-crony-capitalist demonstrations, worker organizing, youth revolts, media insurgencies, and police brutality protests that overthrew governments, mobilized populations throughout […]
